10:45 a lot of them did this... they didn't have dementia they knew what they were doing. My mom's grandma was Syrian in jamaica and married a black Indian in jamaica and was racist as well... complained about the kids that came out darker. When they asked her why did she marry a black man they had to prepare to run... same thing rubbed off on her daughter who was my maternal grandma... even though she came out brown complected she would act like she couldn't see some of her grandkids in the hallway because they were too dark... "who is that? I can't see you"... all types of remarks like that was popular back then. They were far from senile.
Racism is learned. She obviously wasn’t racist but was taught racism and so in her state of dementia she remembered what she was taught. We, Jamaicans are a special people. May we all choose to put Yeshua first and love our neighbors as ourselves . God has blessed us and our Island, Jamaica.
Looks like her dementia reset her back to factory settings.You said, “She obviously wasn’t racist.” Why? Because she slept with Black people? Didn’t a majority of white men during segregation do the same? Bedroom integration is not confirmation of a white person’s status of not being classified as a white supremacist. White supremacists sleep with non-white people-they have been doing it for centuries. Look at South America, the Caribbean, and the U.K.
Thank you for sharing. I'm from the states. I learned that in my family, my white-passing, great grandparents did not allow dark skinned people inside or around their house. They were embarrassed of being part black, or afraid of it being known due to the racism here. It's sad.
Very similar story to mine. Had a white Sottish Great grandma who also ended up racist in her later years although married to a very dark African Jamaican man on my moms side, also from St Elisabeth. They had a lot of children. All of my aunties and uncles were divided among themselves to their dying day about who was light skinned and who was dark. Unfortunately there is still color racism in Jamaica.
@@hotpeppas She must have been racist from the time she met your great-grandfather they don't just become racist in later life that's not how it works...And Jamaica like all the Caribbean is the ideal place for that kinds of practice
Many black people in the carribbean discriminate against dark skinned people. My friend from Guyana is dark like me and she told that her sister was half Portuguese so she was mixed race. Her sister refused to acknowledge her in public as her sister and would say that she is a relative of mine .Only when the sister was dying of cancer did she apologise for the way that she treated her sibling.
Every Jamaican needs to do a DNA. MY mum Jamaican is 100% African mosttly from Nigeria but she was told a load of obsession with whiteness stories. Anyway, im so proud of my Ancestors. Out of the the millions trafficked only 25% survived!
@KeenanLambert198 The Portuguese and British divided up Africa and then divided up Jamaica. Out of many one should be about the one group of people that survived!
The Jamaican motto "out of many, one people". Refers to the different groups that make up the island's people, black (African ancestry, majority), white (Colonisers), Indian (Indentured Labourers, brought in after emancipation), Chinese came directly from Hong Kong while some came from Panama. However, all these groups see themselves simply as Jamaicans, and do not identify themselves ethnically.
My great grandmother was Syrian Jewish and I understand she also discriminated against dark skinned Jamaicans eventhough her husband had dark skin.😮 Unbelievable!
@@blessings-every1 Didn't slave masters and overseers do the very same thing! Chattel slavery ended but the system of white supremacy refined itself. The same practices are still upheld in their refined forms.
My grandfather whom I loved and who loved me was a mulatto, white mom ,black father, he didn't care for dark skin black people and Indians (coolie) he too married a dark skin woman and bore 11 children in jamaica. Kinda weired.
Grand Rising, King: Big UPS 4 sharing this with us. “The Virus” runs wide, deep, high & long! Keep up the great work. Continued success during your travels internally & externally! 👍🏽🙏💪🏾😎
What virus? I'm implying the "white" in us. 1st of all, nations have mixed for the longest in history, Egyptian empire, Babylonian, Medio-Persian, Greek, Roman empires all involved different peoples and they mixed. So get over it.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention I took that same test and the results were very shocking to me but my family is so mixed with Chinese and English also more to name it’s very important for everyone to do their own research when it comes to family history 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I can totally relate to the grandmother part and her questionable behavior. Now, in terms of the African makeup. I think West Africans should be considered as West Africans (in genealogy) instead of being termed by modern day nationalities. Btw, I read once where the vast majority of Blacks taken to Brasil came out of Mozambique, which is more on the South East side of the continent. Also, most of the whites found in Jamaica back in the days would've been Irish & Scottish. There were English but most of them returned to England and left the plantations to be ran by Irish and Scottish overseers who had served out their terms as indentured labourers.
Keenan, the voice is excep- tional, you've heard that a thousand times. Most desc- endants of the slave trade are familiar with the admix- ture and some, closer to the lighter relatives are familiar with various levels of racist behaviour from them. My take, is that folks "buy into the prevailing thinking " of the times and various factors fed the out comes. The position is bagging to me but all-sorts of abbera- tions are found in the cond- ition called imperfect human Enjoyed your presentation. 😏🤔🌴🇯🇲
Interesting story about your ancestry history. Bless for sharing it here on TH-cam! I did mine back in 2016 , it's been an amazing journey with it all 🙏
Wonderful baratone. Interesting story. The DNa also carries attitude...so she may have suppress those negative feelings which later popped out 😅. Hope no critical damages was done to this child.
Brother O'Keenan, a salute to your tiny bit of Irish heritage. Not sure how TH-cam works as to remarks but it seems mine have been removed. Did you see them, read them? I had mentioned the local Black community founded by unrulable Maroons from Jamaica sent here by the British. I also mentioned the cultural institution in that area. Please let me know. Regards from your friend in the sovereign country and never to be the 51st state, CANADA.
Brother Joe! I think TH-cam did it's thing and hid the comment! I am ordering my kilt and bagpipe RIGHT NOW! I think I may come up north to do that Maroon video in the future. In a few months, maybe the flight to Nova Scotia will become a cheap domestic one! Your Brother, KL
Thank you very much brother. You have highlighted a topic that many people would want to be swept under the carpet. Colourism is rife in Jamaica and is very damaging to the young when perpetuated by their beloved elders.
This is awesome info! Theres a book called "Come back to me Ava" its fiction but speaks on some of the trauma that stems from this! Its affecting us today. Thanks for sharing.❤
Love the story but it was too short😂. My material family is from Braes River St Elizabeth. My mother's father is from St. Ann. Would enjoy watching more ❤️
My Maternal Grandfather & 🙏🏽🕊️Harlem's Own🗽🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪Harry Belafonte's Are Cousins. Their Grandmother's Maiden Name"Love" Are Sisters. My mom called her Grandmother "Ma". White woman with long hair, down her back. Both raised in Bullbay
My great grand mother is from scotland as well, and grand mother was biracial born in 1918, Cuba but migrated to Jamaica. She had a saucy mouth on her too. i will leave it at that. Thanks for sharing.
OMG,,,your family make up is very, very similar to mine. Only difference is, it was my GREAT GRANDFATHER who was Scottish. His parents migrated to Jamaica. And my great grandmother,was Cuban, who also migrated to Jamaica with her parents, and got married to my great grandfather.
I lived in Scotland (Glasgow) for 4.5 years. Most Scots have no idea that they were living like parasites off black Jamaican people. In the centre of Glasgow, you have streets and massive buildings named after Scots involved with slavery. As someone with Jamaican born parents, it was difficult to walk past these places without getting angry.
I can relate 😂 my great grandma was white and would make the same comments even though she had children with a black man...in st Catherine, go figure 😅
I have heard of such stories where people who have overcome racist ideology revert to their younger years and racist feelings and memories when they become demented. Sad.
Informative and funny story. Personally I like the dna tests that show which tribes we come from rather than borders which were created by Europeans. Great video
Many people in Jamaica are under the impression that racism is not in Jamaica. That's so not true. Even within families, there's bias....colorism. I am from the tribe of Judea and I am blessed and proud of my bloodline.
Claire Bell say it louder I'm Jamaican I'm from the tribe of Benyamin apart of the southern kingdom which vis called Judah and I'm so proud of my lineage we are the Israelites all praises to the Abba Nawa yahawa.
That is religious doctrine. Is it historically correct or even true? These things was written by the coloniser who's mission is to tell you you are somebody you aint. These are not our stories. Don't let other people tell you who you are! Can't truss your coloniser book they will never tell you the truth
Did you know if you go back 20 generations we all have over a million great great grandparents and guess what they are all from all over the world all different colours and did you know that the original Irish and Scottish, Welsh and Britton’s was all brown or dark skinned who were expelled from Europe in the 1650s sent to the Americas and the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell on a ten to 15 day ship ride
Yes, Facts, thank you, come on people we have our original names! check out the Grimaldi, ancient black people in Europe including Britain that's going back even further than Oliver Cromwell expelling hundreds of black people from the country into Barbados, Jamaica and other Caribbean contries
Israelites where being dragged out of Africa to the Caribbean and America. Yes, they enslaved the children of Israel, paying them nothing afterwards The Most High YAH! Will handle this HalleluYAH! 🙌🏾
Hi Keenan, hopefully you see this. I saw you for the first and and immediately felt like I knew where this information was going and infact it went there. One of my aunts did the DNA and if her name is on your timeline, then I'm probably one of your family members. This would be on the Brooks timeline. I really hope you see this and respond.
2025🙏🏽. Hey K, Interesting Family History! Brooklyn, NY❤️🔥 Love & Big Up Fellow West Indian Massive, From My Multicultural Familelelele 💃🏽🗽❄️🌆☃️🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪🇹🇹🇮🇳🇵🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧💙🤍❤️🖤💛💚🧡🤍 My Parents Lived In Ghana 28 Years Ago, But Back In Montego Bay. Interesting How They Say Jamaicans Originated From There.
B Bradha, I am 2 seconds in your video and I had to stop and compliment your deep velvet voice, the late great Barry White has nothing on you, if you haven't already you should consider radio or voice over, but the TH-cam ting is good still because at least we get to see your face. Right back to the video, I have a feeling it's going to be fantastic. I'll comment when l have finished. 👊🏿🇯🇲
That just conveys to me that the those DNA tests are likely nonsense. It doesn’t add up. Further, how is it that your father is almost 100% African with African phenotype but you are from all over the place smh. I am Jamaican. But more accurately stated, I am African by way of Jamaica. To be clear I am very light in complexion but it doesn’t make me not African. My English ancestry counts for nothing because of the history of Black people. I am glad to hear you say that you are 80% African: “No matter where you come from as long as you’re a Black man (woman) you’re African. Be proud of being African. One love
I’m from a different island and we share the same linage I have done extensive research from the age of 14 to now 40 odd years and I want to say you are a truer Rasta man and the first Rastaman look like you not Bob continue to shine your light my lord foward your teaching to greater heights the world is listening
First time watching your videos. Beautiful voice. 😊 regarding your grandmother, yes, she could have suppressed her racist views because she was married to a brown man. I have seen some of my white uncle’s that were with black women and be racist. They’re just hypocrites. 🙏🏽
That intro song does not speak to my Jamaican experience it shows a darker side of the culture but definitely not mine and many others. I recently discovered i have deep roots in St. Elizabeth on both sides of my family Woodlands and Accompong, my grand-father is from Alligator Pond, Manchester. My most recent white ancestor is my great-grandfather.
I am thankful you watched this video and could give a bit of your own history…. Jamaica is not the same place it used to be…. The violence from Town has drifted to country…. Guns are everywhere and the present day music reflects the reality of many places on the island….
@@KeenanLambert198Agreed. But must it be supported? It was the only part of your video that I thought was distasteful. So many songs to choose from that would reflect the theme of this piece…. Family..and their quirks. 🧐
@ my Mom said the same thing…. She hated the song, but the younger folk like it. In the TH-cam Studio there is a select amount of music one can purchase…. The free stuff is 👎🏾…. I needed to grab your attention for retention purposes and make a bang… So Shanna Madda Pot I used 😈…. The analytics numbers look good so far….
@@KeenanLambert198 Violence affects all Jamaicans even if you have not been affected directly you have to put in measures to secure yourself, but what about those with sheltered lives? I’m a 90s kid, so I only know Jamaica as a violent place but only through the news. Some Jamaicans were born on private wards at UWI, Andrews, or even in the US, attended Stella Maris, Hillel, or Sts. Peter & Paul, then moved on to Campion, Immaculate other traditional high schools. Grew up in in Barbican, Red Hills, Norbrook, Hope Pastures, Cherry Gardens or even Havendale emersed in American culture vacationed abroad. By high school’s end, it was off to boarding school in Canada or college in the States. What’s their Jamaican reality?"
Excelente video. Es muy importante aprender acerca de nuestros ancentros para crear una ruta en nuestro paso por la vida desde que nacimos hasta el presente. Es como si trazáramos una lídea de vida que nos conected con el ADN desde el principio hasta el de nuestras generaciones hasta el presente. Mi nombre es Darío Mendoza (USA).
Don't be in a DAZE in these last DAYS. Don't be blind and left behind. Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone but if you give your life to Jesus Christ ETERNITY 🙏🏾❤️
Hello cousin....Keenan O Lambert (1991)- is my 6th cousin 3x removed. Everything in your tale is quite similar to mine. You are probably a closer cousin if I can connect William Powell (1872) to the rest of my Powell clan (same as 4th cousin Gen. Colin Powell), but for now, our connection is via your maternal line. My immediate paternal relatives are the Witter's (also of German origin), and have been marrying the Powell's for centuries. This Powell line, via Capt. Francis Burton of Barbados, connects our families to multiple passengers of the Mayflower as well as every U.S. President, except the 8th (Dutch), who are all descendants of my 21st great grandfather John I "Lackland". I suspect most of these people share similar sentiments as your great grandmother (my 5th cousin x1).
Cousin Mark! You see the same Great Great Granny I am referring to in this video? She was married to my GREAT GREAT GRANDPA Eston B. Powell (He died in about 1938 or so) in Portland, ME. Then returned back to Jamaica... Watson's Hill, Manchester side. The rumor in the family was always that we were related to Gen. Powell, ha! i'm thankful you showed up here...
@@KeenanLambert198 Yes, your entire family are in my tree. You might be able to triangulate a connection through one of these relatives along this path: Gen. Colin Luther Powell US Secretary of State 1937-2021 is my 4th cousin 1x removed Luther Theophilus Powell 1898-1978 - Father of Gen. Colin Luther Powell Rosena Bromfield 1879-1934 - Mother of Luther Theophilus Powell Louisa Elizabeth Gordon 1848-1933 - Mother of Rosena Bromfield Rebecca Simpson (K4KK-G2Q) 1817-1895 - Mother of Louisa Elizabeth Gordon William Simpson (GMVF-CH5) 1820-1905 - Brother of Rebecca Simpson (K4KK-G2Q) Julia Eliza Simpson 1844-1924 - Daughter of William Simpson (GMVF-CH5) Isadora Matilda Barnes 1878-1955 - Daughter of Julia Eliza Simpson Lilian Maud Witter 1909-1990 - Daughter of Isadora Matilda Barnes James Edward Chang (born Witter) 1930-1997 - Son of Lilian Maud Witter Mark Anthony Chang (L6Q2-ZDV) - and i am the son of James Edward Chang (born Witter)
Many people in Jamaican have nicknames, but I would not go that far to say that everybody has one. Most people I know and grew up with did not have one.
I’m Jamaican with 80% African as well with the largest being Nigerian at 45% I have 10% Indian and 10 Scottish/irish and the rest being small percentage of around 20 different African countries from Cameroon and Mali all the way to Zimbabwe and most of us have the same genetic makeup
Exactly. And according to Professor Henry Gates, African Americans who have taken DNA tests are around 80% African and 20% European. I suppose its the old 80:20 rule. My people are from Manchester and St.Elizabeth. I have never taken a DNA test, but I have been told that I share a Grandmother with the late Danny Buck.
As you know, Jamaicans of east Indian descent, who were well off usually attended school in Scotland. I have a dear east Indian Jamaican friend who has a Scottish accent . . . wild!
Understandably slavery, discrimination, hatred, violence, and migration all negativity affected Black Americans sometimes leading to divorce, broken homes, crime, violence, lack of education, unemployment, sexual promiscuity, unwanted pregnancies, and drug addiction. Some say that Black Jamaicans who came later to the United States avoided these problems and enjoyed stricter, closer families, and a more disciplined, principled, educated, and successful life. Certainly this was true of General Colin Powell. How true is this generally about Jamaicans who immigrated to the United States?
Which DNA company did you do your testing with. I got a 1% Innuit reading in my results plus a genetic group of Indians of Jamaica, perhaps kalinago, or tiano😅.
I also got Benin and Togo 🇹🇬, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Ghana 🇬🇭 , Yorubaland, England 🏴, Scotland 🏴, Western Bantu People, Ireland 🇮🇪, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Ashkenazi Jewish, Germanic Europe in my ancestry DNA results
My family is from Jamaica as well and they started as white there from Portland blue mountain but eventually alot moved to Kingston whats your last name ? My mother has been on her ancestry alot and shes from Portland because your ancestry sounds alot like mine
The test showed the same results several times. My brother and sister took the test at different times and the results were about the same. I knew where my ancestors came from before taking the test and the tests only confirmed it.
People need to stop waiting money on genealogy. Read the Bible. It tells us who we are, that is the real test. Deuteronomy 28:15-68. Read it who is it talking about? Black and brown people.
You have a great voice for radio bro
I've been trying to tell him this. Especially when he add the bass. He could do voice overs . I would hire him for my stream 😁
I agree, I could listen to him all day.
Ohmigod!! Yes, I would def tune in. His voice is so soothing and strong...I love it🤌🏾🙏🏾❤️
You can say that again... coooya... but it's the fact that he don't look mature, could you imagine when he get's older 😀... what a blessing
Yes , that voice.Radio ready😂😂
10:45 a lot of them did this... they didn't have dementia they knew what they were doing. My mom's grandma was Syrian in jamaica and married a black Indian in jamaica and was racist as well... complained about the kids that came out darker. When they asked her why did she marry a black man they had to prepare to run... same thing rubbed off on her daughter who was my maternal grandma... even though she came out brown complected she would act like she couldn't see some of her grandkids in the hallway because they were too dark... "who is that? I can't see you"... all types of remarks like that was popular back then. They were far from senile.
Racism is learned. She obviously wasn’t racist but was taught racism and so in her state of dementia she remembered what she was taught. We, Jamaicans are a special people. May we all choose to put Yeshua first and love our neighbors as ourselves . God has blessed us and our Island, Jamaica.
Wrong. Children of darker complexion get treated poorly in Jamaica till this day.
You sure about that?
Amen! Love Yeshua forever, 🙏! 🤍🤍🤍
Looks like her dementia reset her back to factory settings.You said, “She obviously wasn’t racist.” Why? Because she slept with Black people?
Didn’t a majority of white men during segregation do the same? Bedroom integration is not confirmation of a white person’s status of not being classified as a white supremacist. White supremacists sleep with non-white people-they have been doing it for centuries. Look at South America, the Caribbean, and the U.K.
Thank you for sharing. I'm from the states. I learned that in my family, my white-passing, great grandparents did not allow dark skinned people inside or around their house. They were embarrassed of being part black, or afraid of it being known due to the racism here. It's sad.
Very similar story to mine. Had a white Sottish Great grandma who also ended up racist in her later years although married to a very dark African Jamaican man on my moms side, also from St Elisabeth. They had a lot of children. All of my aunties and uncles were divided among themselves to their dying day about who was light skinned and who was dark. Unfortunately there is still color racism in Jamaica.
So true!
Definitely, alive and well.
I know simalar for me too🎉
I did a dna test on both ancestry ans 23&me
@@hotpeppas She must have been racist from the time she met your great-grandfather they don't just become racist in later life that's not how it works...And Jamaica like all the Caribbean is the ideal place for that kinds of practice
I'm glad someone said it. Out of many is a joke.
Many black people in the carribbean discriminate against dark skinned people. My friend from Guyana is dark like me and she told that her sister was half Portuguese so she was mixed race. Her sister refused to acknowledge her in public as her sister and would say that she is a relative of mine .Only when the sister was dying of cancer did she apologise for the way that she treated her sibling.
@@ladydivine8615 🥺🥺🥺 that’s horrible… I hope she is okay
@KeenanLambert198
Yes she forgave her before she passed away.
That is a very common story in Jamaica.
Funny how people apologize for things they did in the past, when they're dying.
Every Jamaican needs to do a DNA. MY mum Jamaican is 100% African mosttly from Nigeria but she was told a load of obsession with whiteness stories. Anyway, im so proud of my Ancestors. Out of the the millions trafficked only 25% survived!
@@C_CZ2 when they said out of many one…. I was thinking…. Yoruba, Mandinka, Fanti, Ashanti…
@KeenanLambert198 The Portuguese and British divided up Africa and then divided up Jamaica. Out of many one should be about the one group of people that survived!
Wow never ever heard of a Caribbean DNA 💯African wow
The Jamaican motto "out of many, one people". Refers to the different groups that make up the island's people, black (African ancestry, majority), white (Colonisers), Indian (Indentured Labourers, brought in after emancipation), Chinese came directly from Hong Kong while some came from Panama. However, all these groups see themselves simply as Jamaicans, and do not identify themselves ethnically.
@CordellaKing I know what it means....
My great grandmother was Syrian Jewish and I understand she also discriminated against dark skinned Jamaicans eventhough her husband had dark skin.😮 Unbelievable!
@@sharonshirley7864 like make it make sense!!!!
So, granny loved her chocolate-melanated hubby and his chocolate-melanated *****,
but didn't like his chocolate-melanated people 🤔
@@blessings-every1 Didn't slave masters and overseers do the very same thing! Chattel slavery ended but the system of white supremacy refined itself. The same practices are still upheld in their refined forms.
My grandfather whom I loved and who loved me was a mulatto, white mom ,black father, he didn't care for dark skin black people and Indians (coolie) he too married a dark skin woman and bore 11 children in jamaica. Kinda weired.
But he married a black woman.
people have complicated ideas
It's not weird, at all; it is called the "Jamaican factor"! 😏😉
Joke aside, once we get to know each other, we realize that color is only skin deep!
What a voice bro... you can go faaar wid dis for sure. TH-cam is good for your personal thing but di world will love listening to this voice.
Interesting and informative Keenan. It makes so much sense for us to do that to know our past, present and future.
I agree! It important to know where we come from and where we are going!
Grand Rising, King: Big UPS 4 sharing this with us. “The Virus” runs wide, deep, high & long! Keep up the great work. Continued success during your travels internally & externally! 👍🏽🙏💪🏾😎
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What virus? I'm implying the "white" in us. 1st of all, nations have mixed for the longest in history, Egyptian empire, Babylonian, Medio-Persian, Greek, Roman empires all involved different peoples and they mixed. So get over it.
Thank you for sharing that story. You have a great voice for voice over/narration work.
Yes!!! I recommend you take a class and learn the techniques, etc. I'm sure you will do well!
What guan Irish man Keenan 😂 I love the video it's definitely different.
Bagpipes ready mi G! hahaha
I hail from Williamsfield, St Jamaica. Family from Scotland with DNA and matching regions. Nice coverage bredren. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Balaclava, St. Elizabeth checking in
What is St Jamaica.
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Gosh! What a time in history! What a life story. Senility robs too many in their golden years. Sending you love & healing from Jamaica. Bless🇯🇲
Great Video. This was very interesting.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention I took that same test and the results were very shocking to me but my family is so mixed with Chinese and English also more to name it’s very important for everyone to do their own research when it comes to family history 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
@@philliplyn2692
Respect, cousin! 🇯🇲
I can totally relate to the grandmother part and her questionable behavior. Now, in terms of the African makeup. I think West Africans should be considered as West Africans (in genealogy) instead of being termed by modern day nationalities. Btw, I read once where the vast majority of Blacks taken to Brasil came out of Mozambique, which is more on the South East side of the continent. Also, most of the whites found in Jamaica back in the days would've been Irish & Scottish. There were English but most of them returned to England and left the plantations to be ran by Irish and Scottish overseers who had served out their terms as indentured labourers.
Keenan, the voice is excep-
tional, you've heard that a thousand times. Most desc-
endants of the slave trade are familiar with the admix-
ture and some, closer to the lighter relatives are familiar with various levels of racist behaviour from them. My take, is that folks "buy into the prevailing thinking " of the times and various factors fed the out comes. The position is bagging to me but all-sorts of abbera-
tions are found in the cond-
ition called imperfect human
Enjoyed your presentation. 😏🤔🌴🇯🇲
Interesting story about your ancestry history. Bless for sharing it here on TH-cam! I did mine back in 2016 , it's been an amazing journey with it all 🙏
Very educational love it we want more because lots of Jamaican can identify with your story
Wonderful baratone. Interesting story. The DNa also carries attitude...so she may have suppress those negative feelings which later popped out 😅. Hope no critical damages was done to this child.
Brother O'Keenan, a salute to your tiny bit of Irish heritage. Not sure how TH-cam works as to remarks but it seems mine have been removed. Did you see them, read them? I had mentioned the local Black community founded by unrulable Maroons from Jamaica sent here by the British. I also mentioned the cultural institution in that area. Please let me know. Regards from your friend in the sovereign country and never to be the 51st state, CANADA.
Brother Joe! I think TH-cam did it's thing and hid the comment! I am ordering my kilt and bagpipe RIGHT NOW! I think I may come up north to do that Maroon video in the future. In a few months, maybe the flight to Nova Scotia will become a cheap domestic one!
Your Brother,
KL
@@KeenanLambert198 kilt and bagpipes are Scottish not Irish 😭😭
Thank you very much brother. You have highlighted a topic that many people would want to be swept under the carpet. Colourism is rife in Jamaica and is very damaging to the young when perpetuated by their beloved elders.
Tell it!!!
Thanks for sharing my brother
Thanks so much for watching this one fam!
Yooo your voice shocked me.. lol lol I wasn't ready.. 😂
My DNA is similar 78% African and 22 European, with Nigeria making up the majority of my DNA.
Did your matches show any Africans living in Africa as your relatives?
I liked his greetings,but this part'This is your brother...' said a lot to me
This is awesome info! Theres a book called "Come back to me Ava" its fiction but speaks on some of the trauma that stems from this! Its affecting us today. Thanks for sharing.❤
Great voice Bro first time watching good video will continue to watch 🇯🇲🇱🇷
Thank you Gloria!!!!!
Love the story but it was too short😂. My material family is from Braes River St Elizabeth. My mother's father is from St. Ann. Would enjoy watching more ❤️
Big up! Mi used to go Braes River basic school😂
@Chaddddio 🤣. Same here until 1986. Notice your Clarke. I'm positive we FAM🤣. Stay blessed
My maternal grandfather is a Brae from St. E
Great video looking forward to seeing the rest. What is the name of the song in the beginning? Thanks
@@kyanbuchanan3897 Shabba Madda Pot by Dexter Daps 🔥🔥
American here. Nigeria is the location where the bulk
Of my DNA matches come from as far as splitting the origins.
My Maternal Grandfather & 🙏🏽🕊️Harlem's Own🗽🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪Harry Belafonte's Are Cousins. Their Grandmother's Maiden Name"Love" Are Sisters. My mom called her Grandmother "Ma". White woman with long hair, down her back. Both raised in Bullbay
Nice. Knew a few Love that lived up in Bull bay. Played football with Lascell
@RayRay-qs8xk What, wow small world!!
Those countries are my exact makeup just add 🇨🇳
@jasonthompson4079 Us Too, Trying To Find Out Who's 🇨🇳 In Our Family As Well.
Respectfully, Jane's maiden name was Clarke. Love is her married name because her husband was William Alexander Love.
My great grand mother is from scotland as well, and grand mother was biracial born in 1918, Cuba but migrated to Jamaica. She had a saucy mouth on her too. i will leave it at that. Thanks for sharing.
OMG,,,your family make up is very, very similar to mine. Only difference is, it was my GREAT GRANDFATHER who was Scottish. His parents migrated to Jamaica. And my great grandmother,was Cuban, who also migrated to Jamaica with her parents, and got married to my great grandfather.
Thank You Keenan🙂💙👍I got some Scottish in me too.👍
Let’s get those bagpipes going!!!!!
I lived in Scotland (Glasgow) for 4.5 years. Most Scots have no idea that they were living like parasites off black Jamaican people. In the centre of Glasgow, you have streets and massive buildings named after Scots involved with slavery. As someone with Jamaican born parents, it was difficult to walk past these places without getting angry.
Same here!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴
My great grandfather was white and we hear stories like this about him in general they are like that.
I can relate 😂 my great grandma was white and would make the same comments even though she had children with a black man...in st Catherine, go figure 😅
I have heard of such stories where people who have overcome racist ideology revert to their younger years and racist feelings and memories when they become demented. Sad.
I came here to say this. So, very true!
Informative and funny story. Personally I like the dna tests that show which tribes we come from rather than borders which were created by Europeans. Great video
Yeah I agree, the tribes are way more interesting than arbitrary border lines!
How is kicking a child down a flight of stairs because of their skin colour funny????
@@waynegreen87 Well if you're mixed it'll show the people that you night not like that are a part of your
I am not hearing anything. All about listening to your awesome voice. Now I am going over the video. Ah your voice is on a different level
what company did u use for your DNA tracing?
Many people in Jamaica are under the impression that racism is not in Jamaica. That's so not true. Even within families, there's bias....colorism.
I am from the tribe of Judea and I am blessed and proud of my bloodline.
Claire Bell say it louder I'm Jamaican I'm from the tribe of Benyamin apart of the southern kingdom which vis called Judah and I'm so proud of my lineage we are the Israelites all praises to the Abba Nawa yahawa.
That is religious doctrine. Is it historically correct or even true? These things was written by the coloniser who's mission is to tell you you are somebody you aint. These are not our stories. Don't let other people tell you who you are! Can't truss your coloniser book they will never tell you the truth
@@maxinefay3966 I am blue/green eyed blond from Sweden. What tribe does i come from?
@@krissalkondDo your own DNA test 🙄
Did you know if you go back 20 generations we all have over a million great great grandparents and guess what they are all from all over the world all different colours and did you know that the original Irish and Scottish, Welsh and Britton’s was all brown or dark skinned who were expelled from Europe in the 1650s sent to the Americas and the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell on a ten to 15 day ship ride
Yes, Facts, thank you, come on people we have our original names! check out the Grimaldi, ancient black people in Europe including Britain that's going back even further than Oliver Cromwell expelling hundreds of black people from the country into Barbados, Jamaica and other Caribbean contries
Love your strong voice brother!
Keenan thanks for sharing your interesting backstory. Excited for more. You’re an amazing narrator.
The ladies sure got it goin on!
🔥🔥🔥 a Jamaica trip is in order for you soon!
I think racism was always there and she suppressed it.
Israelites where being dragged out of Africa to the Caribbean and America. Yes, they enslaved the children of Israel, paying them nothing afterwards The Most High YAH! Will handle this HalleluYAH! 🙌🏾
Keenan who did you do your DNA test with out of curiosity?
@@winstynglyn6893 did it with ancestry!
Yes more family history stories
Prayers that the day comes when slavery is abolished in Africa.
Hi Keenan, hopefully you see this. I saw you for the first and and immediately felt like I knew where this information was going and infact it went there. One of my aunts did the DNA and if her name is on your timeline, then I'm probably one of your family members. This would be on the Brooks timeline. I really hope you see this and respond.
Wow that's crazy. Send me your aunt's name and I will see if I know them.
@KeenanLambert198 you responded..wow! Look for the name Nola Brooks and let me know...
2025🙏🏽. Hey K, Interesting Family History! Brooklyn, NY❤️🔥 Love & Big Up Fellow West Indian Massive, From My Multicultural Familelelele 💃🏽🗽❄️🌆☃️🇺🇲🇯🇲🏴🇮🇪🇹🇹🇮🇳🇵🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧💙🤍❤️🖤💛💚🧡🤍 My Parents Lived In Ghana 28 Years Ago, But Back In Montego Bay. Interesting How They Say Jamaicans Originated From There.
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Bradha, I am 2 seconds in your video and I had to stop and compliment your deep velvet voice, the late great Barry White has nothing on you, if you haven't already you should consider radio or voice over, but the TH-cam ting is good still because at least we get to see your face. Right back to the video, I have a feeling it's going to be fantastic.
I'll comment when l have finished. 👊🏿🇯🇲
@@evertonnixon5881 big respect to you family 🇯🇲🇯🇲🫡🙏🏾
@@evertonnixon5881 You're complimenting a man on his voice??? What kind of moistness is that??
Tribes migrated around too so your dad is fine! We’re the same bro! Except the white part.😂💯
Lmaoooo!!! You did yours?! I know you got a little Frenchy and Syrian in there!
@@jimst.germain lol bro you most result I see always a little Spain Portugal from y’all next door neighbor always creep up too
the title and the thumbnail is lowkey funny af💀
That just conveys to me that the those DNA tests are likely nonsense. It doesn’t add up. Further, how is it that your father is almost 100% African with African phenotype but you are from all over the place smh.
I am Jamaican. But more accurately stated, I am African by way of Jamaica. To be clear I am very light in complexion but it doesn’t make me not African. My English ancestry counts for nothing because of the history of Black people.
I am glad to hear you say that you are 80% African: “No matter where you come from as long as you’re a Black man (woman) you’re African.
Be proud of being African.
One love
My mom is in the 60s% African and the rest European
My grandma Indian. She told my mom her son can’t breed any black woman
That’s typical among the East Indians
😆😆😆 but what about her lovers were all black😆😆😆
When you say Indian do you mean native American or india?
@@KentPetersonmoneyMost likely India.
@@KentPetersonmoney Indo-Jamaicans (From India)… They were invited to Jamaica after the end of slavery to work on the sugar plantations
I’m from a different island and we share the same linage I have done extensive research from the age of 14 to now 40 odd years and I want to say you are a truer Rasta man and the first Rastaman look like you not Bob continue to shine your light my lord foward your teaching to greater heights the world is listening
Rastafari liveth in the hearts of all good flesh good words and good works
First time watching your videos. Beautiful voice. 😊
regarding your grandmother, yes, she could have suppressed her racist views because she was married to a brown man. I have seen some of my white uncle’s that were with black women and be racist. They’re just hypocrites. 🙏🏽
That intro song does not speak to my Jamaican experience it shows a darker side of the culture but definitely not mine and many others. I recently discovered i have deep roots in St. Elizabeth on both sides of my family Woodlands and Accompong, my grand-father is from Alligator Pond, Manchester. My most recent white ancestor is my great-grandfather.
I am thankful you watched this video and could give a bit of your own history…. Jamaica is not the same place it used to be…. The violence from Town has drifted to country…. Guns are everywhere and the present day music reflects the reality of many places on the island….
@@KeenanLambert198Agreed. But must it be supported? It was the only part of your video that I thought was distasteful. So many songs to choose from that would reflect the theme of this piece…. Family..and their quirks. 🧐
@ my Mom said the same thing…. She hated the song, but the younger folk like it. In the TH-cam Studio there is a select amount of music one can purchase…. The free stuff is 👎🏾…. I needed to grab your attention for retention purposes and make a bang… So Shanna Madda Pot I used 😈…. The analytics numbers look good so far….
@@KeenanLambert198 Violence affects all Jamaicans even if you have not been affected directly you have to put in measures to secure yourself, but what about those with sheltered lives? I’m a 90s kid, so I only know Jamaica as a violent place but only through the news. Some Jamaicans were born on private wards at UWI, Andrews, or even in the US, attended Stella Maris, Hillel, or Sts. Peter & Paul, then moved on to Campion, Immaculate other traditional high schools. Grew up in in Barbican, Red Hills, Norbrook, Hope Pastures, Cherry Gardens or even Havendale emersed in American culture vacationed abroad. By high school’s end, it was off to boarding school in Canada or college in the States. What’s their Jamaican reality?"
What's the name of the song playing at the beginning of this video?
Shabba Madda Pot by Dexta Daps
Thank you!
My great grandfather 🇧🇿🇨🇮🏴🏴🏴
My grandmother last name is Powell she was related to Colin Powell also from St,Elizabeth
@@KILLABEEZ1000 we are family then….. Mavis Powell is my great granny… COVID got her
Great story Keenan 👏🏿 you gain a new subscribers! Bro mi have stories fi days! Hit me up if u ever go live on your platform! . 💯🇯🇲✌🏿
Tell fi yu story.
Great content. New sub
Excelente video. Es muy importante aprender acerca de nuestros ancentros para crear una ruta en nuestro paso por la vida desde
que nacimos hasta el presente. Es como si trazáramos una lídea de vida que nos conected con el ADN desde el principio hasta
el de nuestras generaciones hasta el presente. Mi nombre es Darío Mendoza (USA).
That voice oh lord 😊
Don't be in a DAZE in these last DAYS. Don't be blind and left behind. Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone but if you give your life to Jesus Christ ETERNITY 🙏🏾❤️
❤
It was just the true nature coming forth. Remember they were taught
Hello cousin....Keenan O Lambert (1991)- is my 6th cousin 3x removed. Everything in your tale is quite similar to mine. You are probably a closer cousin if I can connect William Powell (1872) to the rest of my Powell clan (same as 4th cousin Gen. Colin Powell), but for now, our connection is via your maternal line. My immediate paternal relatives are the Witter's (also of German origin), and have been marrying the Powell's for centuries. This Powell line, via Capt. Francis Burton of Barbados, connects our families to multiple passengers of the Mayflower as well as every U.S. President, except the 8th (Dutch), who are all descendants of my 21st great grandfather John I "Lackland". I suspect most of these people share similar sentiments as your great grandmother (my 5th cousin x1).
Cousin Mark! You see the same Great Great Granny I am referring to in this video? She was married to my GREAT GREAT GRANDPA Eston B. Powell (He died in about 1938 or so) in Portland, ME. Then returned back to Jamaica... Watson's Hill, Manchester side. The rumor in the family was always that we were related to Gen. Powell, ha! i'm thankful you showed up here...
@@KeenanLambert198 Yes, your entire family are in my tree. You might be able to triangulate a connection through one of these relatives along this path:
Gen. Colin Luther Powell US Secretary of State 1937-2021 is my 4th cousin 1x removed
Luther Theophilus Powell 1898-1978 - Father of Gen. Colin Luther Powell
Rosena Bromfield 1879-1934 - Mother of Luther Theophilus Powell
Louisa Elizabeth Gordon 1848-1933 - Mother of Rosena Bromfield
Rebecca Simpson (K4KK-G2Q) 1817-1895 - Mother of Louisa Elizabeth Gordon
William Simpson (GMVF-CH5) 1820-1905 - Brother of Rebecca Simpson (K4KK-G2Q)
Julia Eliza Simpson 1844-1924 - Daughter of William Simpson (GMVF-CH5)
Isadora Matilda Barnes 1878-1955 - Daughter of Julia Eliza Simpson
Lilian Maud Witter 1909-1990 - Daughter of Isadora Matilda Barnes
James Edward Chang (born Witter) 1930-1997 - Son of Lilian Maud Witter
Mark Anthony Chang (L6Q2-ZDV) - and i am the son of James Edward Chang (born Witter)
Please! Please! Please tell us more about your family tree!😃
5:02 Nay mi bhra tell them da trooth da english man dem couldnt stay way from da sweet sweet ripe black pumpum a dat mix us up man.
The world is mixed from long time. Wars and conquest and people mix up.
Ole "Marlou" always had it in her Bro...LOL....Hope all is well dude.....Happy New Year...Be Safe And Remember To Drink One For Ya Boy!!! 🤣
Many people in Jamaican have nicknames, but I would not go that far to say that everybody has one. Most people I know and grew up with did not have one.
Okay
Which test did you take? I took African ancestry my pops lineage is 100% Bissa tribe in Burkina Faso
Bissa Tribe ayy!? Congrats! Is that Y chromosome testing he did? I did Ancestry!
@KeenanLambert198 yes I did the paternal test my mom side is Nigerian
I’m Jamaican with 80% African as well with the largest being Nigerian at 45% I have 10% Indian and 10 Scottish/irish and the rest being small percentage of around 20 different African countries from Cameroon and Mali all the way to Zimbabwe and most of us have the same genetic makeup
Exactly. And according to Professor Henry Gates, African Americans who have taken DNA tests are around 80% African and 20% European. I suppose its the old 80:20 rule. My people are from Manchester and St.Elizabeth. I have never taken a DNA test, but I have been told that I share a Grandmother with the late Danny Buck.
Bro, have you thought about doing voice-overs? for tv or radio, maybe even a series on Dracula. Plenty of money to be made.
Great family history 🇯🇲
With the onset of Dementia I’ve seen persons revert to childhood experiences so the racist behaviour was probably this memory coming forward.
It is her true behavior that she suppressed. Who fa black pitny this?
As you know, Jamaicans of east Indian descent, who were well off usually attended school in Scotland. I have a dear east Indian Jamaican friend who has a Scottish accent . . . wild!
Understandably slavery, discrimination, hatred, violence, and migration all negativity affected Black Americans sometimes leading to divorce, broken homes, crime, violence, lack of education, unemployment, sexual promiscuity, unwanted pregnancies, and drug addiction.
Some say that Black Jamaicans who came later to the United States avoided these problems and enjoyed stricter, closer families, and a more disciplined, principled, educated, and successful life. Certainly this was true of General Colin Powell. How true is this generally about Jamaicans who immigrated to the United States?
I have never acknowledged a WHITE Jamaican .. indigenous 🇯🇲
Hey im in portugal right now. Very clean and quiet...out of season
Wow his voice!
What test is this ?
This is the ancestry test
Hello, did you find any africa s from Africa dat are related to you in your matches?
Which DNA company did you do your testing with. I got a 1% Innuit reading in my results plus a genetic group of Indians of Jamaica, perhaps kalinago, or tiano😅.
she has this in her all the time and so it is for many intermarrage my grand mother hated blacks yet she was born in ja
When i do mine, I want my results to reflect largely Ghana!!!
Easton Powell was my mum's uncle. It's a small world x
Hello cousin!!!! 🙏🏾👋🏾👋🏾
Great information
The African cultures/descendants were distributed throughout the West Indian islands. No island was spared.
I also got Benin and Togo 🇹🇬, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Ghana 🇬🇭 , Yorubaland, England 🏴, Scotland 🏴, Western Bantu People, Ireland 🇮🇪, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Ashkenazi Jewish, Germanic Europe in my ancestry DNA results
It's impossible for you to have some much mixture in one person
She was always like that because my mother preferred to light skin grandchildren than the dark ones
My family is from Jamaica as well and they started as white there from Portland blue mountain but eventually alot moved to Kingston whats your last name ? My mother has been on her ancestry alot and shes from Portland because your ancestry sounds alot like mine
Im first person born in the US on my mom side
These ancestry results are not accurate. If you do it again and use a different name and / or another company, you will get another results.
The test showed the same results several times. My brother and sister took the test at different times and the results were about the same. I knew where my ancestors came from before taking the test and the tests only confirmed it.
are u complaining about 1 percent difference?
People need to stop waiting money on genealogy. Read the Bible. It tells us who we are, that is the real test. Deuteronomy 28:15-68. Read it who is it talking about? Black and brown people.
what. nonsense
We are the Israelites